English

Effect of Spin Current on Uniform Ferromagnetism: Domain Nucleation

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2016-08-31 v2

Abstract

Large spin current applied to a uniform ferromagnet leads to a spin-wave instability as pointed out recently. In this paper, it is shown that such spin-wave instability is absent in a state containing a domain wall, which indicates that nucleation of magnetic domains occurs above a certain critical spin current. This scenario is supported also by an explicit energy comparison of the two states under spin current.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0407116,
  title  = {Effect of Spin Current on Uniform Ferromagnetism: Domain Nucleation},
  author = {Junya Shibata and Gen Tatara and Hiroshi Kohno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0407116},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure, REVTeX, rivised version, to appear in Physical Review Letters